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Re: Resistannce to the antibiotic tetracycline in Honeybees

Originally Posted by squarepeg

mark, is it more feasible to apply the preventative treatments vs. isolating and destroying as it appears?

For who?

TM is used prophylactically as a preventitive medication by some commercial beekeepers. That doesn't mean they don't have hives w/ active state AFB every now and then. When they do, and find it, they handle it, deal w/ it. It is destroyed when it appears.

I guess I will have to look that up. I haven't heard of any of my friends using it yet. I also have not heard of any AFB which doesn't respond to TM or Tylan. Not that I hear commercial guys talking about treating active state AFB either.

Re: Resistannce to the antibiotic tetracycline in Honeybees

Yes, they do. I have seen many of those reports here in NY. My own and those of others who have had samples sent in to Beltsville.

I read the article you mentioned and Beltsville worked on getting the antibiotics approved, the one you mentioned and the 4 types of tylosin too. So, maybe we have 6 drugs and not just three.

This whole resistance thing is confusing to me. I still don't understand whether we would have resistance expressed in the Lab wheteher antibiotics were used or not. I have not used TM in ages and never used it consistantly or across my whole operation. And yet I will have reports of resistance. So, what does that mean to someone who burns cases found and does not treat?